--- title: This time Corva received him in the most friendly manner, and set a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This time Corva received him in the most friendly manner, and set a sumptuous repast before him. Who acts: Corva. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/) / 38 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 38 This time Corva received him in the most friendly manner, and set a sumptuous repast before him. **Who acts:** Corva · **What happens:** receive, set · **To what, where:** Iwanich, friendly manner, sumptuous repast This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Corva), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:32:38 # text = This time Corva received him in the most friendly manner, and set a sumptuous repast before him. 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 Corva Corva PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 9 advmod _ _ 9 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 sumptuous sumptuous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 repast repast NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 before before ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **receive** | past | Corva | Iwanich | | the friendly manner | time | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in manner=Location | | 2 | **set** | infinitive | Corva *not said here* | a sumptuous repast | | | before Iwanich | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent repast=Theme before he=Destination | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/39/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/)